Nickname(s) Team North / TN Website Club home page | Manager Paul Johnson Founded 1999 | |
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Full name Team Northumbria Football Club Ground Coach Lane Sports Ground Newcastle upon Tyne 2015–16 Northern League Division Two, 4th League Northern Football League Division One | ||
Team Northumbria Football Club are an English association football team based in Newcastle upon Tyne, playing in the Northern League Division Two, having been relegated in 2012 from Division One. They are the football team of Northumbria University, and were founded in 1999 as Northumbria University F.C., until 2003 when they took up their current name.
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History
Founded in 1999 as Northumbria University F.C., they joined the Northern Football Alliance Second Division for the 1999–2000 season, finishing their inaugural year fourth out of 14 teams. Two years later in the 2001–02 season they finished runners-up, gaining promotion to Division One. They followed runners-up again a year later in the 2002–03 season, with promotion to the Northern Alliance Premier Division. They then changed their name to Team Northumbria. In the Premier Division they finished second and third in their first two seasons, before being crowned Northern Alliance Champions in the 2005–06 season, gaining promotion to the Northern League Division Two, which they won in the 2011–12 season to gain promotion to the first division. In the same season, they lost 4–2 on penalties in the Northumberland Senior Cup final against Newcastle United reserves, after drawing 4–4 after extra time.